Visualization and graphics card

Depending on the graphics card, you may not be able to use all new features in the area of visualization. To fully exploit these benefits, you require a professional graphics card with at least 1 GB of memory. In addition, the graphics card must support OpenGL 3.5. We recommend OpenGL 4.2 for future versions of Allplan.

Allplan automatically switches to GDI in the following cases:

The memory of the graphics card is less than 1 GB.
DirectX 10.0 graphics cards with older drivers (2009 or earlier); you can solve this problem by updating the driver.
DirectX 9 graphics cards or earlier
Intel chipsets

In any case, GDI ensures that you can work productively in Allplan. However, graphics may be a bit slower.

Open GL in comparison with GDI

View type	Open GL 3.5	GDI
Wireframe view type (design)	Yes	Yes
Animation view type (default, design check)	Yes	Yes
Animation view type (advanced, with shadows and material channels)	Yes	No
Hidden view type (default)	Yes	Yes (new in Allplan 2015)
Hidden view type (advanced, with shadows and edge detection)	Yes	No
Sketch view type (new in Allplan 2015)	Yes	No
RT Renderer view type (new in Allplan 2015)	Yes	No
CINEMA Renderer (new in Allplan 2015) for rendering images	Yes	Yes

Recommendations for graphics card / 32-bit version no longer available

To fully exploit the benefits of the new visualization features in Allplan 2015, you require a graphics card with at least 1 GB of memory. Please note that Allplan 2015 is only available for Windows 64-bit systems.